I, FAUSTO POCAR, Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian
Law Committed in the Territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("the
International Tribunal"),

NOTING that the Appeals Chamber is seizedof the "Defendants
Notice of Appeal" filed by TihomirBlakic
on 17 March 2000, from the Judgement of Trial Chamber I in the case of Prosecutor v.
Tihomir Blakic, dated 3 March 2000;

NOTING that sub-Rule 65bis(B) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the
International Tribunal ("the Rules") requires "StChe Appeals Chamber or an
Appeals Chamber Judge" to "convene a status conference, within one hundred and
twenty days of the filing of a notice of appeal and thereafter within one hundred and
twenty days after the last status conference, to allow any person in custody pending
appeal the opportunity to raise issues in relation thereto, including the mental and
physical condition of that person";

CONSIDERING that Tihomir Blakic is currently in
detention at the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague pending the hearing of the
appeal;

CONSIDERING that the last hearing in this matter was a status conference held on 26
October 2000;

PURSUANT to sub-Rule 65bis(B) of the Rules;

ORDERS that a Status Conference pursuant to sub-Rule 65bis(B) shall be held
on Wednesday 21 February 2001 at 10:00 a.m.

Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.